In the News (#760)

Two years ago, during a weekend I mentioned in a diary column, I gave an interview to Dr. Heather Branstetter for her recently-published book, Selling Sex in the Silver Valley. Sadly, the interview didn’t make it into the final text (such are the ways of editing!), but Dr. Branstetter recently published a post about the interview in her blog (in which she says some very lovely and flattering things about me). Do give it a look, and if the subject intrigues you be sure to buy a copy of the book!

The Deuce producers and stars want to draw a [whorearchical] line about the series: It’s about porn, but is not porn itself. That means that all of the problems associated with porn — the misogyny, the abuse, the objectification – are featured…as part of the exploration of the topic, not for gratuitous storytelling…co-creator David Simon [bloviated]…“It would be a mistake to look at this and think that we are in any way trafficking in misogynistic imagery or objectification”…As an actress playing one of those objectified women, [Maggie] Gyllenhaal also weighed in…“It should make you consider your position in how sex is commodified”…

But it’s OK when it’s “commodified” by actresses with six-or-seven-figure paychecks, isn’t it Maggie? It’s just not OK for us lowly three-or-four-figure a pop girls.

…how about visiting the Red Light District Escape Room, where you have to escape from a window brothel before your “pimp” returns, isn’t that a fun idea?! Yes, this is now possible in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. A great way to profit over the existence of prostitutes…plus as as a bonus you get to increase the stigma of sex workers as victims!…Original Tours & Activities Nederland B.V. is now offering…a fun experience, where you get locked up in a fake window brothel, and you have to “escape” by following the clues in the room within 60 minutes, before your “pimp” comes back. According to the website the hilarious rating is 8/10, with a difficulty degree of 4 stars and an escape ratio of 63%. The costs? Only €14,50 per person, or €12,50 with 13 people or more…

…Peter Dandos…[has been accused] of operating a brothel…a lot…lately: protests have been held outside his massage parlour for more than six weeks…Dandos is confused by the protests. “If they really want to stop something, why don’t they start with the escorts?…if they want to stop something they should start there”…

The fanatically-prohibitionist Seattle Times has once again revisited the takedown of The Review Board, vomiting out the same old cop lies and masturbatory fantasies as they have on the subject for the past 19 months. Compare this exercise in cop fellation and myth-regurgitation with Liz Brown’s thorough & well-researched piece on the subject (linked in the subtitle above), and then understand the the reporter who prepared this new trash read Liz’s one and completely ignored it, except for the lines she plagiarized without attribution.

A man is accused of drunkenly strolling down a Maine road wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and a clown mask and brandishing a machete taped to where his arm had been amputated…Corey Berry…was arrested…and charged with criminal threatening…

As physicians who have treated victims of human trafficking and research this scourge, we believe that this form of severe exploitation is under-recognized in health care settings and live are being lost because of that. The International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes aim to describe diseases and causes of death and disease. These codes, which are used for everything from hospital billing to research, establish legitimacy for the conditions that harm and kill people every day. As the World Health Organization works toward its 11th iteration of these codes, we urge that “victim of human trafficking” be recognized as an official diagnosis…

Ms Norman, the 70-year-old woman who was arrested because she stayed to try to save the life of a man who had collapsed in the brothel where she was working as a cleaner, was…found guilty of assisting in the management of a brothel…This prosecution sends a signal to sex workers everywhere that the police are more concerned with their targets…than with the value of human life…Ms Norman…got paid £6 an hour…We now wait to see if the police and courts further persecute Ms Norman by trying to take her savings and assets under proceeds of crime law…

I also noted Valiant Richey sitting to the left of Demand Abolition’s Alex Treautoud at a congressional hearing in July, this after being pictured at Demand Abolition’s corporate office in May. By this time it should be obvious that Valiant Richey is a puppet for Demand Abolition.

During one sentencing prosecutor Gary Ernsdorf admitted that King County’s prosecutors had a long discussion and decided to charge a large group. This is not justice but to appease Demand Abolition.

Another article written by a “survivor” was recognized by Treautoud. Eerily resembling a pimp relationship, Alex said it was one of the better “survivor” accounts. The “survivor” was elated.

This is incredible. Val Richey in this presentation to the Office of Juvenile Justice is giving a speech on underage prostitution. He mentions the loeg case in Seattle which was apparently his only accomplishment in life without pointing out that no children or coercion was involved.

Val Richey is lying scum with no credibility. The more lies he tells unchallenged the more he repeats them. His clearly ambitious and has not integrity. We will someday make a fine pedophile or politician.

It seems like a much more fun escape room would be “Escape from ‘Rescue’.” You’d be locked in a room with a sewing machine to make goods for small wages after having been “rescued” by some neofeminist QANGO. You’re goal is to escape from this miserable arrangement back to a life of decent money and freedom before the guards make their rounds. Possibly previous “rescuees” have left clues on how you could manage it.

Also, people have started pushing “The Deuce” at me, my usual well meaning, liberal friends who totally don’t think of themselves as the Bible Bangers I spent time with in my youth. I think I preferred “Jesus hates it” to “Gail Dines hates it” as the reason I should whip myself over watching some porn or seeing a call girl.

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